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Friday Nov 14, 2014

Innovation fueled by technology is laying the groundwork for new business models to disrupt industries and threaten established companies. Market dynamics influenced by mobile, social, big data, and the Internet of Everything are forcing businesses into an ‘adapt or die’ mode.

In the retail sector, Amazon not only dominates ecommerce, but has also reset expectations regarding affiliate programs, fulfillment, customer loyalty, and user experience. Tesla Motors has shaken the auto industry with electric cars sold directly to consumers rather than through franchised dealers. Airbnb’s community based travel service in 34,000+ cities is directly challenging the hotel industry. Twitter has changed the way we track news and consume media, providing a platform for global real-time communications. Other companies such as Uber, Square, Kickstarter, and 23 and Me are challenging the status quo in transportation, payment services, fundraising, and personalized medicine.

It seems that no industry is untouched. Yet, IT departments are so busy running the business that they can only spend 16% of their time transforming the business.

Being able to execute on innovative ideas and strategies will separate future industry leaders from laggards. And alignment of business objectives and IT infrastructure is key to a successful execution model.

Do you have any ideas to share? What dynamics in your industry are forcing companies to adapt and change? How will you keep up and what should you be watching out for?

Harish Venkat is Vice President of the Global Hardware Systems Business Group at Oracle Corporation. As leader of hardware strategy for both sales and product marketing, Harish is responsible for growing Oracle’s server, storage and engineered systems business. With a focus on helping customers optimize both business and IT in today's rapidly changing environment, Harish and his organization deliver integrated system and software solutions that drive business transformation. With nearly 20 years’ industry experience, Harish is recognized for the leadership, know-how and strong focus on customers that he brings to his current role.

Monday Jan 06, 2014

The trend toward adoption of pre-integrated data center 'building blocks' combining applications, database and middleware software, data storage, compute, networking, virtualization and management is well underway within most global enterprises. This trend, and Oracle's leadership position, is evidenced by recent survey data and analysis published by numerous industry luminaries (such as Gartner and IDC). While not all such offerings from all vendors are equivalent, they all have common aims: cost reduction, improved efficiency, better ease of use and the agility to take advantage of marketplace opportunities and technology changes as quickly as they occur, for as long as they last. While other technology solution vendors are now racing to close the gap, Oracle's offering continues to outpace our competition, propelled by numerous commercial, marketplace and unique technical advantages.

Thursday May 23, 2013

Last month, Oracle invited industry analysts for an annual deep dive on what’s to come. One of these analysts – ESG’s senior analyst Mark Peters – recently posted an update of how he spent some of his time at the event. We totally recommend you visit his blog and check out the post, but here are a few highlights:

Diverse CrowdPeters was struck by the fact that he wasn’t seeing a lot of familiar faces in the crowd. He later realized the reason for that was because Oracle doesn’t just have a hardware message – it also speaks to the software side of the equation.

“The opportunities for Oracle to make significant progress in terms of market share and revenue lie in markets that it does not yet dominate. It’s a crucial point for this growing systems house.”

That’s a crucial point we’re well positioned for. Our complete stack of offerings provide world-record-breaking performance by fusing critical pieces of software and hardware in ways that deliver cost-performance unlike anything the tech industry has seen.

Bullish on StorageMark filmed a brief interview with Oracle’s Phil Bullinger, senior vice president of storage. Mark and Phil go into great details on the ZFS Storage business.